Shu Wen Ng

Shu Wen Ng

Dr. Ng is a faculty member in the UNC Department of Nutrition. She is a health economist studying the role of individual or household behaviors and choices on weight, chronic disease and health outcomes. She uses a variety of quantitative methods to study commercial store sales, household purchase, and nutrition facts panel data at the UPC/barcode level (scanner data), and has also worked extensively with dietary intake and nutrition databases.